Today was Halloween and I decided I was going to join the gang at Cindy's house. I didn't have anything better to do, so watching a scary movie was better than going to a party where the cops can possibly be called.
I didn't have a casual Halloween costume based on a fictional character, so I decided to dress as myself. The outfit I chose was the one I was going to use if the government ever came after me again.
I had on camouflage joggers, a tight-fitting black shirt, and some combat boots. I was supposed to have high-tech weapons attached to me, but my Grandad wouldn't let me step out of the house with them.
I made sure I had everything before I left my room to head to the car. Riley came out of his room on time with his costume on. As I looked closely at his costume, it looked like he was going as himself too.
"Are you ready?" I asked making sure.
"You already know Escobar is ready nigga," Riley said hyping himself up. I just rolled my eyes and headed towards the car. "Can you text Jazmine and tell her we're going to be waiting outside?" I simply asked him.
"Man why can't you do it?" he asked getting an attitude with. "Because one, I asked you, and two I could just leave you here and let you walk," I said glaring at him as he thought about it for a second.
"You know Ed and Rummy can just come pick me up right?" he said making me want to roll my eyes again. That was a wrong move!
"Oh, so you would want those two dumbasses coming to pick you up on Halloween knowing the damage they're going to cause, then making Cindy mad because they're not going to take you to your actual location, and to finish it off, both of them are most likely doing drugs are fucking some girl," I exclaimed.
"You know what I'll text Jazmine," he said taking out his phone. I'm assuming he was texting her because he was angrily typing the keys on his screen. It's his fault that he rubbed me the wrong way. I asked for a simple request and he had to question me.
When we made it to my car the engine was turned on as we waited on Jazmine. It was cold when we first got in there because it was the fall season so I had to turn on the heat. Riley was just in the front seat playing some video game until he got bored.
"Nigga when is Jazmine coming?" Riley asked now irritated. "I don't know did you text her?" I asked being smart with him. "You seen me text her and it's been about 15 minutes since then," he argued.
"Well did she respond?" I asked as he checked his phone. He answered: "Her ass didn't even read the message, what could she possibly be doing at the moment?"
I decided to look up from an angle to see what Jazmine was doing. Her bedroom lights were on indicating that she was in her room. Nobody knew this, but since I lived across from Jazmine I was able to see through her window.
Almost two years ago when Tom and Sarah were going at it, they both decided to take some time apart from each other. While Tom was on a business trip she decided to redesign some parts of the house and one of those parts was the windows.
The windows Sarah requested were supposed to not have been see-through during the day or night. But the people that sold it to her gave her a knock-off version that she didn't notice. I tried telling her that but she didn't seem to take interest in my response.
Since then Jazmine has been under the influence that her windows aren't see-through. Luckily, she has curtains, but she barely uses them because she forgets to close them at night.
I wasn't trying to be a creep or anything, but I was able to see Jazmine's room from my room. In the beginning, I didn't have to worry too much about it because Jazmine didn't do anything that was private.
The only thing I would see her doing is makeup, sleeping, and dancing whenever I would take a glimpse. It became a problem when one time I came out of the shower and I saw her with a towel wrapped around her body.
I had to back and take a cold shower! After that day I decided whenever I would come to her house I would shut the curtains in her room. To make it permanent I had asked her to watch a scary movie with me and it involved the person staring into the window which freaked her out.
From that day forward she always closed the curtains when she was about to go to sleep.
"She's doing her makeup," I answered. "Her makeup, she better hurry it the fuck up we gotta go," he said leaning over towards my wheel and aggressively beeping the horn.
"Riley STOP!" I yelled smacking him upside the head. He went back to his spot as he started rubbing the back of his head. He was about to say something but Jazmine came out of the house jogging.
I looked at her costume to see she was dressed as Poison Ivy. She didn't have one of those half-done leafy costumes. That leafy green leotard hugged her body and the green boots she had went along with it.
I will admit most of the stuff Jazmine wears does look good on her. Some may not be for her but she does know how to work it.
The next thing I know Jazmine hops in my car and I could feel a cold breeze from the door temporarily being opened. Riley looked back at Jazmine with a bad temper and asked: "What took you so fucking goddam long Jazmine?"
"My parents!" she simply answered as Riley turned right back around mumbling: "Lyin ass!"
I'm assuming she didn't hear him because she didn't show attention to what he mumbled under his breath. I started driving towards Cindy's house. Jazmine leaned her head in the front and started to observe our costumes. "So what are you guys dressed as?" she nicely asked.
"Myself!" I simply answered as she looked at me closely for some odd reason. She had this odd facial expression where she was zoned out for a couple of seconds. That was until she snapped out of staring at me and looked over at Riley.
"So Riley what are you?" she asked Riley. "A wannabe gangsta, " I mumbled. I wasn't wrong because Riley was dressed like most of the gang members on tv.
"Shut up, " Riley shouted. "I'm not a wannabe I'm is a gangsta, " he babbled as I rolled my eyes. If it weren't for me he would have been a dead gangsta at a young age doing stupid stuff.
"Well it looks very nice," I heard Jazmine compliment. I don't know why she gives him the courage to do this.
"Thank you, Jazmine, at least somebody finds interest in my choice of wearing, " Riley said looking directly at me.
"Well as obvious as it seems I am Poison Ivy, " Jazmine said excitedly while Riley looked back at her and started looking her up and down. "You look good, nature for sure will accept yo' ass, " he said flirting while making my blood boil.
Part of me wanted to reach over and punch Riley in the face and the other part wanted to watch for everybody's safety because I was the driver. I just growled and held tightly onto the wheel and kept driving.
"Don't you have a girlfriend who would get offended that you're flirting with her best friend?" I reminded him.
"Nigga she ain't gonna care, shit she probably would say the same thing, " he said not having the common sense to stop.
For the rest of the ride, we all just sat in silence. We finally made it to Cindy's house and we saw Ceasar and Hiro's car parked outside. I parked the car while Riley quickly got out for him to dash towards the door.
"What's up with him?" I heard Jazmine ask me. "I don't know, I guess he trying to see Cindy," I answered turning off the engine. I tensed at the feeling of Jazmine touching my shoulder. I looked down at my feet because I didn't want to look her in eyes for a moment.
"Hey look I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable a couple of minutes ago," she said apologizing. "You didn't make me uncomfortable," it was more of my brother who made me uncomfortable.
"Okay, but I still apologize if we did and you just don't want to admit it," she said patting me on the shoulder before she left out the car. I watched her jog towards Cindy's door and enter inside of it.
I just sat there in my car rethinking all of this. I was hoping Cindy wouldn't throw a party and invite a bunch of people. I didn't feel like getting in trouble. I decided that if anything fishy starts happening I'm going to leave.
I got out of the car and locked it before walking to Cindy's house. When I came inside Cindy's house I all of a sudden heard her saying: "So is you with yo' fine ass, nature will accept you."
The hell! "SEE NIGGA I TOLD YOU SHE WOULD SAY IT!" I heard Riley yell from the kitchen. I just rolled my eyes and headed to the kitchen where they were all at. Except Jazmine and Cindy since they were having their girl talk.
For some odd reason I was always surprised that Cindy liked guys. I know tomboys can like guys but it's the way she would sometimes act around other females. It just didn't go together for me.
I went into the kitchen to see the others chatting and preparing the snacks. "Hey what up Huey!" Ceasar loudly greeted me. I just slightly waved at him: "Ceasar!"
"Wow, I'm surprised you came Freeman," I all of a sudden heard Ming say. When I looked at her she was dressed as Starfire from Teen Titans. "Yeah, I am too!" I casually told her.
"Jazmine had to convince him to come here," Riley casually said thinking he was funny.
"That does seem like something Jazmine would do, what did she do, did she give you her famous puppy eyes?" Cesar asked leaning on the counter.
"As a matter of fact she didn't, I decided to come," I told them as Ceasar gasped. Here it comes, he's about to be overdramatic about the situation.
"She didn't have to repeatedly ask you like she always does when we have something planned?" he asked changing his tone. I wasn't going to answer because he already knew it. He was just trying to be funny!
If I feed into his childishness then he's just going to continue. Unlike people like my brother, who will keep going until they feel satisfied to stop on their own term.
I just rolled my eyes and looked over at the others. "So what are you guys dressed as?" I asked trying to change the topic. "Okay, well as you can tell, Ming and I are dressed as Nightwing and Starfire," Hiro proudly answered gesturing to him and Ming.
I had to look at them again to see their costumes didn't really suck. They actually matched the characters quite well. Ming even had the green eyes and pink hair.
"I ain't gonna lie, Ming you don't look half bad, and Hiro, yo' ass look gay as hell wearing that suit," Riley said I guess complimenting them. "Wouldn't that make you gay because you were checking me out?" Hiro rhetorically asked turning the tables back on Riley. This caused Cesar, Austin, and Ming to bust out laughing. It even made me crack a smile.
"That don't mean I was checking you out BITCH!" Riley yelled making Hiro laugh. "You know since you want call me gay and everything what are you supposed to be?" Hiro asked crossing his arms.
"For your information, I'm myself, ain't nothing gay or wrong about that," Riley said hyping himself up. "It's Halloween you're supposed to dress as a character from a movie or tv show," Ceasar said.
"Yeah and I dressed as myself. I've been on tv a couple of times, and I'm not the only one that came as myself. Huey and Austin came as they self along with yo' corny ass!" Riley defended.
"But Huey dressed as some character from an action movie," Ceasar said. "No he didn't, that's his outfit for when he tries to run from the government again when they come after him," Riley said earning a scowl from me.
"Shut up Riley!" I hissed because I didn't want everybody knowing my business. "Nigga you act like you weren't all over camera with that shit," he said not being fazed by it.
"Anyway but you and Austin came as your selves," Riley said. "Um no I didn't!" Austin said finally speaking since I got here. "Really then what did you come as?" Riley asked awaiting his answer.
"Any character you see dressed like this on tv," he making me roll my eyes. He basically had on casual clothes. Austin was really giving me lightskin vibes! Just the way he responded to things was pushing it towards that way.
"Nigga that just says you came as yourself, what character on tv has exactly what you have on?" Riley asked. "Background characters dumbass!" he said. "Okay, I'm not even going to respond to that, Ceasar you're just dressed in all black; are you a murder, emo, or a creep?" Riley asked.
"For your information, I'm Michael Myers," he said. "If you're Michael Myers then where the fuck is your mask at?" he asked as I looked at Ceasar for a response.
"I don't know, I couldn't find it when I was about to leave," he said. "Really, you know someone is gonna assume you're some type of perverted psycho right?" Riley asked.
"Just like how they're going to assume you're some wannabe gangsta," Ceasar retorted. "Okay you guys lets calm down before this gets serious," Austin said getting in the mix. He kinda stood between Ceasar and Riley just incase something were to happen.
"It's okay Austin this is normal between them," Ming casually said. Austin looked back at Ceasar and Riley to see there was nothing wrong. Ming was right though, Ceasar and Riley would be at each others throats then go back to talking like nothing happened.
"You sure?" he asked as we all nodded. After that Jazmine came over towards us and Ceasar flirtatiously said: "What's sup Poison Ivy!"
"Hey Ceasar!" she said flushing at him. I can't help but feel there is something going on here. "What are you supposed to be?" Jazmine asked trying identify his costume.
"I'm supposed to be Michael Myers, but I couldn't find my mask," he repeated. "You guys hurry up the movie is about to start," we heard Cindy yell from the living room. On cue, everybody grabbed the snacks and headed towards the living room.
We could all see the movie started and we sat all the snacks down on the table. As big as Cindy's couch was, almost everybody decided they wanna sit on the floor. This couch was big enough to have all us of sit on it.
The movie we were all watching was called Insidious. Growing up I watched this movie a thousand times and it didn't faze me not one bit. It wasn't even that scary. They made it seem like it was scary but the main antagonist looked fake as hell. The other characters in that movie were more real than the demon.
Plus the demon looked more like the red face emoji with horns. There was nothing surprising about it. I could sense Jazmine leaning towards me. "Huey what's this movie about?" she asked whispering.
I rolled my eyes and answered: "It just about a boy who left his physical body and couldn't find his way back."
"And?" she asked needing more information. "And there were a bunch of lingering spirits trying to steal his body," I finished off. She didn't ask anymore questions after that and started watching the movie.
Then she scooted up against me. "Jazmine, you have all this room on the couch, why the hell are you up against me?" I asked cause she was making me feel a little uncomfortable. I didn't want anything triggering! "Because I'm scared and you don't seem to fear scary things, so I need you to tell me when the bad parts are over," she whispered burying her face into my chest.
I didn't budge and I watched the movie. It was nighttime and the mom was heading to the babies room to check on her. I knew what was about to come up. This gave first viewers a jump scare.
"Well there's no bad part going on now," I casually said as she looked at the tv to see where the ghost was in the mirror watching the baby. She screamed out loud causing me to cover my mouth.
The guys were laughing at her and I was trying to contain any bit of laughter that would escape my mouth. She hit me in the stomach but it didn't hurt. She scooted away from me a little and slouched into the couch.
At the moment I felt bad for her. I was only trying to be funny with her. I looked on my side to see Austin turning around to check on Jazmine. I could hear what they were saying because they were whispering to each other.
I knew deep down the reason Austin came was because Cindy was trying to get him and Jazmine together. Jazmine seemed like she liked Austin because he was making her feel better at the moment. When he turned back around she leaned back into the couch and she was blushing.
I focused my attention back on the movie until I heard Jazmine say: "Umm Cindy!"
Cindy answered her and then I heard her say: "The fuck!"
She got up off the couch and she was looking in a certain direction. I looked in the same direction she was looking in to see there was fog on the other side of the house.
"What's wrong C?" Riley asked getting up off the floor. "There's fog in here and it's cold," she told him as everybody else looked down at the floor. Heavy breathing was being heard and what came into view was a tall figure.
You couldn't tell who it was but just incase I stood up from the couch. When the figure became fully visible the person was wearing a Michael Myers mask. I would have assumed it was Ceasar but he was with the rest of us and even he seemed clueless.
The figure took out a knife and held it up. I thought the knife might have been fake but turns out it was real. Almost everybody started screaming and running towards the door. I went to the front door since it was the closest.
Ceasar was trying to unlock the door but Cindy had so many fucking goddamn locks it looked impossible to get out of. Then I saw Riley from the corner of my eye running to go get Cindy who was paused at the moment. I heard him say: "I will not let you be the first white girl to die."
You see this why white people die in scary movies because they do stuff like this. Having a fucking long set of locks and still looking at the person trying to kill you.
He scooped her up and then the Michael Myers figure started walking towards us. I looked at Ceasar to see he was still struggling to unlock the door. When I seen a clown come into the play that's when I lost it. I shoved Ceasar out of the way and found a way to unlock all of the doors.
The clown was coming fast and he was flipping all over the furniture. I opened the door and ran out. The first thing I saw was my car in front of Cindy's house. If I could get in and head to my house to grab some of my weapons then I'll be good along with some of the others (that's if they make it).
I pulled out my keys and unlocked the door and ran towards my car. I was able to slide across the hood of my car and get into the front seat. Riley opened the back door and shoved Cindy in there and then he got in.
The others seem to have struggle to make it to their cars because they were the last ones out. I tried starting my car but it wouldn't work. Out of all the days to stop working it chooses this day.
"Come on you piece of shit!" I yelled. I kept trying to start it but it wouldn't budge. Then I all of a sudden felt somebody climb on the top of my car.
"Oh shit!" I heard Riley say in the back scared as hell. I saw a pale had come into view on the top mirror and then other pale hand.
After that a face had appeared and it looked scary. It was a clown and he/she was smiling at us as were disgusted. The clown was licking my windows and shaking my car. Riley and Cindy were screaming and I didn't know what to do because I couldn't get them out.
I would go out and battle them but I didn't know what these freaks were capable of doing. I looked around to see me, Riley, and Cindy were in my car. Ming was in the car with Hiro scared to death. Ceasar was locked up in his car along with Austin was frozen in his car.
Where the fuck is Jazmine? "Riley did you see Jazmine?" I asked as his eyes widen. "Oh my God they killed Jazmine," he said freaking out some more. I didn't see her body anywhere meaning she must of ran home.
Anything could have happened to her, so I got out of my car to see the clown still on top. It tried to attack me but swiftly kicked it on the side of the face knocking it out. I know for a fact that's gonna leave a mark.
While the other freaks were scaring the others I was going to go look for Jazmine. I started running towards her house and I could tell she went the path I was taking because I saw her decorative leafs that must of fell off while she was running.
I sped up my pace and was able to make it to her house. I could hear Jazmine screaming, "Hold on Jazmine I'm coming!" I yelled as I kicked through her door. I had seen two creepy figures in the fog while Jazmine was laying on the ground in fear.
She was frozen just like Cindy was. I felt my blood boil and I saw was red. I ran towards one of the figures and managed to grab one of them. I had a good grip around their neck to the point I could break it without trying.
I heard a female voice screaming: "Wait stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop!"
The lights had turned on making it clearer for us to see. The other figure I didn't get ahold of decided to remove their mask. It revealed to be Sarah who looked guilty. I assumed the one I had a grip on was Tom. That might explain why I heard a girly scream.
I had dropped Tom and felt so embarrassed at the moment. I pinched the bridge of my noses for I had to calm myself down. "I have no words!" I simply said.
"Oh my gosh, why would you guys do something like this, and who were the others?" Jazmine angrily asked them.
"The others are Robert, Ruckus, and the other parents. We all thought it would be funny to play a joke on you; because it's Halloween!" Tom clarified. "But I got scared," Jazmine told them out of seriousness as they both thought it was a joke angering me.
"Yeah along with you and the others, we got it all on video," they started to cry laughter. "That is not funny," she hissed at them. "Yeah your part isn't funny sweetheart, we didn't want to make you freeze, but we should've known better, so we apologized," Sarah apologized as her and Tom both hugged Jazmine who looked uncomfortable. "Would you like a hug too Huey?" Tom asked as I just left.
I went across the street while shaking my head. I can't deal with Woodcrest, next Halloween I'm just going to stay in.
Thank you for reading!